Rolls-Royce revving up S'pore production

"That's a hard, strong ramp up... (but) we had a good preparation period. So we are confident it will be fine," said Mr Asherson.

Singapore

ENGINE maker Rolls-Royce, which has produced 70 Trent aircraft engines at its Seletar plant in Singapore - the company's first such facility outside the UK - just this year, plans to ramp up production to 250 a year by 2017.